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单词 flogger
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floggern.

Brit. /ˈflɒɡə/, U.S. /ˈflɑɡər/
Etymology: formed as flog v. + -er suffix1.
1. One who flogs.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who beats
beater1483
lambacker1593
breecher1611
trouncerc1630
flaybreech1671
flogger1708
drubbera1721
thrasher?1853
swisher1884
1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. xxi. 93.
1713 Doctor no Changeling 13 Doctor Busby, the Famous Flogger of Westminster.
1844 Ld. Brougham Albert Lunel II. vi. 145 The common gaol, where a public flogger attends.
1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. v. 208 (note) Dr. Parr was quite as distinguished a flogger as a scholar.
2. slang. A horse- or riding-whip.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > urge on > with a whip > (types of) whip
wandc1400
rod?a1475
riding rod?a1549
switch1597
quirka1616
whippet1616
shambrier1667
horsewhipa1691
whip-stick1782
lash-whip1787
flogger1789
string1839
nagaika1842
whalebone1842
quirt1845
switcher1847
ash-plant1850
hunting-crop1857
dick1864
bow-whip1890
1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xv. 173 Whip. Flogger.
1795 H. T. Potter New Dict. Cant & Flash (ed. 2) Flogger, a whip.
18.. Sporting Times (Barrère) Compared with the light and elegant floggers of the present day, it is a heavy, common ‘riding companion’.
3. A kind of tool (see quot. 1884).
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1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 348/2 Flogger, a bung~starter. An instrument for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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